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...Price of Luxury...
...paying $8.34 billion for Absolut's parent company, Vin & Sprit--which was almost 21 times the Swedish firm's gross operating profit last year. As if to suggest that Pernod Ricard had overreached, Bruce Carbonari, CEO of Fortune Brands (which was trumped in the Absolut auction), claimed that the price for V&S would not provide an "appropriate return" for shareholders. Yet le patron remained unperturbed. Three years ago, the company leveraged itself heavily to acquire Britain's Allied Domecq, a $13 billion deal that doubled Pernod Ricard's size at a stroke and added such brands as Beefeater...
Thomas warned me to have plenty of money in my account, since I'd probably be writing checks for about $300 to every person who came to my party. I was supposed to use the karat-testing machine, that day's price of gold, a chart in her book and a calculator to give people about 75% of the value of their gold, since 5% was going to the refinery and 10% to cover the cost of the party. I got to keep the rest. This seemed like the most difficult party in the world to run other than...
...recover during the remainder of the year. In addition, the single-family housing crisis is nearing an end.” Zell cited the February increase in U.S. home resales—the first in over half a year—as evidence that the decline in the price levels of single-family housing was nearing its bottom. In an earlier interview with The Crimson, Zell discussed the power of leverage—using borrowed capital to increase investment returns—as a major reason why he chose to enter real estate. “Even when...
...economy takes hits from the worldwide financial turbulence triggered by the U.S. credit crisis. It's hard to sell high-flown ideas of multilateralism or promote increases in aid to the world's poorest when your own people see the value of their homes and stocks sinking and the price of food and fuel rising...